Caleb Heathcote served as Waters' successor from 1702 to 1720, and Waters was again in the Council from 1710 to 1731. He died in June, 1731. Lewis Morris was in the Council again from 1721 to 1729, in Caleb Heathcote's place, and the rival family of De Lancey, as successor of Heathcote, displaces Lewis Morris in the j)erson of James De Lancey, who served from 1729 to 1753. This distinguished man was Lieutenant-Governor of the province from 1753 to September 3, 1755 ; also from June 3, 1757, to July 30, 1760. He returned to the Council from 1755 to 1700, when he died. Oliver De Lancey served in the Council from 176(1 to 17()6, and James, the son of James, was offered a seat in 17(;9, but declined it. Gouverneur Morris, a citizen of this township, was one of the members of tlie Council of Safety, which was appointed by the New York Assembly and sat from May 14 to Sept. 10, 1777, and from Oct. 8, 1777 to Se])t. 10, 1778. For many years Richard Morris, of Fordham, chief justice of the Supreme Court, served as a member of the Council of Revision. The townshij) has at various times furnished its quota of

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distinguished men to the State Senate. Lewis and Richard Morris served at the sessions of 1777-1778 ; Richard alone in 1778-1779; the two brothers again in 1780-1781; and Lewis in the fourth session down to July 1, 1781. He was returned in 1784-1787-1788- 1789 and 1790. Philip Livingston, who owned the Van Schaick place, on Throckmorton's Neck, was a State Senator in 1780-1790-1791 and 1792. Samuel Haight, from the old borough town, represented ihe district in 1799-1800; and Thomas Thomas in 1807- 1808. Then the old town furnished no Senator until 1868, when William Cauldwell, of Morrisania, was elected, and was returned in 1870.